End of year terrible bipartisan efforts in Congress
A reminder that between now and when Congress adjourns in a couple of
weeks, there are various awful efforts that both parties are taking
together in Congress on a BIPARTISAN basis to try push through by the
end of the year.
This includes the horrible legislation ostensibly to protect children
from the Internet, but that would actually put children at more risk
and create the foundation for a vast regime requiring all Internet
users to be identified (ostensibly for age verification) in manners
that could easily lay the groundwork for a vast regime of government
tracking of all Internet users' activities, along with some genuine
politically-motivated censorship risks. This is the case irrespective
of whether the ID mechanisms involve linkages to government
credentials, or the various error-prone systems that attempt to guess
ages based on users' faces or online activities, etc. The ways in
which these capabilities could be abused by state governments and the
federal government are virtually without limit.
Also, there are continuing moves to ban DJI drone products -- they are
already facing input restrictions at some or all U.S. customs ports of
entry -- despite the desperation of public safety, agriculture,
utility, and many other crucial groups who depend on these drones and
have been unable to find equivalent replacements to meet their needs.
All based on publicly unsubstantiated claims that these Chinese-made
drones present theoretical security risks.
BOTH parties are responsible for these horribly misguided efforts.
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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